Radu Ciorniciuc directs a beautifully measured portrait of a Romanian family forcibly removed from their wilderness home
There’s a strong streak of paradise-lost romanticism in this Romanian documentary, directed by undercover reporter Radu Ciorniciuc and filmed over several years. At first it looks like a straightforward parable about rebellious free spirits pushed out of their natural idyll by interfering bureaucrats and consigned to misery in the city, but as events progress things (perhaps inevitably) become more complex, with contending pressures and motivations that emerge as time passes. The ostensible subject is Gica Enache, a former lab assistant who, for reasons that are not entirely clear, moved his family into an overgrown wasteland on the edge of Bucharest, abandoned after the collapse of Ceaușescu’s government, an area that has since become the Văcărești nature park.
Enache’s kids – nine of them seen here, though at one point someone says...
There’s a strong streak of paradise-lost romanticism in this Romanian documentary, directed by undercover reporter Radu Ciorniciuc and filmed over several years. At first it looks like a straightforward parable about rebellious free spirits pushed out of their natural idyll by interfering bureaucrats and consigned to misery in the city, but as events progress things (perhaps inevitably) become more complex, with contending pressures and motivations that emerge as time passes. The ostensible subject is Gica Enache, a former lab assistant who, for reasons that are not entirely clear, moved his family into an overgrown wasteland on the edge of Bucharest, abandoned after the collapse of Ceaușescu’s government, an area that has since become the Văcărești nature park.
Enache’s kids – nine of them seen here, though at one point someone says...
- 6/22/2021
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
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